I watched most of this the other night "The Sea Hawk(1940)" so I wanted to know more about Brenda Marshall who co-stars in this movie. It turns out she was married to William Holden, another big star of this era of the 1940s and early 1950s. I first watched this movie likely sometime between 1954 and 1959 in either Tujunga or Glendale where I was growing up there at the time on a Black and White TV. Color TV wasn't any good until at least 1960 to 1962 so most smart people didn't own them until then. My wife decided to watch this movie tonight on our TIVO dvr so I'm writing some about it. Great Movie if you get a chance to watch it! They don't make movies like this anymore! The biggest difference is the amount of real people in scenes. It's really unbelievable the amount of costumed people they have in some of these scenes! You also wonder how many stunt men got injured making a movie like this too?
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Brenda Marshall
Brenda Marshall | |
|---|---|
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| Born | Ardis Ankerson September 29, 1915 |
| Died | July 30, 1992 (aged 76) Palm Springs, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1939–1950 |
| Spouse(s) | |
| Children | 3 |
Ardis Ankerson (September 29, 1915[1] – July 30, 1992), known as Brenda Marshall, was an American film actress.
Career[edit]
Marshall made her first film appearance as Ardis Gaines in Wives of Tomorrow (1937). Her initial billing as Brenda Marshall came in Espionage Agent (1939).[2] The following year, she played the leading lady to Errol Flynn in The Sea Hawk. After divorcing actor Richard Gaines in 1940, she married William Holden in 1941, and her own career soon slowed. She starred opposite James Cagney in Captains of the Clouds (1942).
Marshall had a popular success in The Constant Nymph (1943), but she virtually retired after this, appearing in only four more films, including the Western Whispering Smith (1948). She also played scientist Nora Goodrich in the B picture cult film Strange Impersonation (1946). In 1955, five years after her last film role, she made an appearance as herself (billed as Mrs. William Holden) in the fourth-season episode of I Love Lucy titled "The Fashion Show".
Personal life[edit]
Marshall was born in the Philippines to Swedish parents. She was one of two daughters of Otto Peter Ankerson, overseer of a large sugar plantation near Bacolod. Her mother died in 1925 when she was young,[3] so Ardis, along with her older sister Ruth, attended grammar school and began high school studies as boarding students at the Brent School in Baguio.[4] In the early 1930s, the girls were sent to San Antonio, Texas to complete high school.[5] She attended Texas State College for Women in her freshman and sophomore years, 1933–1935, and was named the Freshman Class Beauty in 1934, chosen by modern dancer Ted Shawn.[6]
Brenda Marshall was her stage name, but she refused to use the name off-camera and insisted that her friends call her by her real name. She married the actor Richard Huston Gaines in 1936, and they had one daughter, Virginia; the couple divorced in 1940.[7]
In 1941, Marshall married actor William Holden, who adopted Virginia Gaines (born November 17, 1937, New York City). Marshall and Holden had two sons together, Peter Westfield "West" Holden (1943–2014) and Scott Porter Holden (1946–2005).[8] After several separations, Marshall and Holden were divorced in 1971. Marshall moved to Palm Springs, California in 1971.[9] She died in 1992 from throat cancer in Palm Springs, aged 76.[10]
Filmography[edit]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | Blackwell's Island | Reynolds' Secretary | uncredited |
| Espionage Agent | Miss Brenda Ballard | ||
| 1940 | The Man Who Talked Too Much | Celia Farrady | |
| The Sea Hawk | Doña Maria | with Errol Flynn | |
| Money and the Woman | Barbara Patteson | ||
| East of the River | Laurie Romayne | ||
| South of Suez | Katharine 'Kit' Sheffield | ||
| 1941 | Footsteps in the Dark | Rita Warren | with Errol Flynn |
| Singapore Woman | Vicki Moore | ||
| Highway West | Claire Foster | ||
| The Smiling Ghost | Lil Barstow | ||
| 1942 | Captains of the Clouds | Emily Foster | |
| You Can't Escape Forever | Laurie Abbott | ||
| 1943 | The Constant Nymph | Toni Sanger | |
| Background to Danger | Tamara Zaleshoff | w/ George Raft | |
| Paris After Dark | Yvonne Blanchard | ||
| 1946 | Strange Impersonation | Nora Goodrich | |
| Whispering Smith | Marian Sinclair | with Alan Ladd | |
| 1950 | The Iroquois Trail | Marion Thorne |
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